Basilica
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Basilica was a San Francisco developer-API company that embedded high-dimensional data like images and text into numerical vectors, the mathematical representations that power machine learning classifiers. Founded in 2018 by Michael Lucy, Jorge Silva and Eric Fung, it joined Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch. Its hosted API let developers without deep ML expertise build accurate models from roughly 1,000 labeled examples instead of the million typically required.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Company founded
Basilica was incorporated in San Francisco on December 15, 2018 by Michael Lucy, Jorge Silva and Eric Fung.
- Product launch
The company pitched its embedding API at Y Combinator's Winter 2019 demo day and raised a $150,000 seed round that June.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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